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Homemade Greek Salad with Dressing

We are salad people in our home, and there is a list of salads that I regularly make and rotate through. Lettuce salads, pasta salads, bean salads, quinoa salads and even wheat berry salads: they are all on the list! If there was one salad that was made more than any other though, it might just be this homemade Greek salad.

Greek salad is jam packed with flavors and every bite is an experience. Fresh chopped veggies, black olives and feta cheese go so well together, but my favorite part of the salad has to be the dressing.

This salad dressing is best made ahead so that the aromatics can blend together in the oil and red wine vinegar. Then, I toss the chopped veggies and black olives in the dressing and let them marinate for at least an hour in the fridge. Do not include the lettuce in this because the leaves would get too soggy. I toss the lettuce and feta cheese with the marinated veggies and dressing, just before bringing the salad to the table.

I love Greek cuisine and here are a few other recipes I have made that have a Greek influence:

As excited as I am about this homemade Greek Salad, I am equally excited about the bowl holding the salad. This salad bowl and the serving spoons are both hand carved and the bowl is actually from the root of a tree. It is so incredibly cool looking and this is sure to be a talking point with anyone we have over for dinner. Since these are hand carved, every bowl is unique.

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17 comments

I made this salad for large gathering, marinated the onion and peppers overnight, added some fresh dill to the dressing, as well, added lettuce, cucumber, olives, feta, at the last minute, tossed and served…delicious!!!

Excellent recipe. Patience adds flavor, best kept secret must be leaving the dressing to infuse for a while and then marinating the vegetables minus the feta and lettuce. Made this recipe over a week ago and couldn’t find it. Just spent 1 hour looking for it on the net. SAVING ASAP.

Sure – you could use other kinds. White vinegar or white wine vinegar would not alter the taste much, but other kinds like apple cider vinegar or malt vinegar might not have the best results since they have a much stronger flavour.

We love this salad!!! I have served it many times at gatherings and people always go back for seconds. This summer we had leftover dressing after making the salad for dinner; the next day for lunch I cut up peppers, onions, cucumbers, tomatoes and feta, cooked penne pasta, threw everything together in a bowl with the dressing and we had a delicious cold pasta salad. My kids loved it so much they ask for it for their school lunches. Thanks Steve!!!!